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How to use the groupdel comand  Network World

UALink as the open standard alternative to NVIDIA NVLink that is backed by Intel, AMD, and other vendors has published the UALink 200G 1.0 specification...

Asahi Linux M4 support hits a roadblock because of Apple Silicon changes  AppleInsider

How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android device  ZDNet

How I automate basic tasks on Linux with bash scripts - and why you should try it  ZDNet

AMD RDNA 3.5 runs better on Linux than Windows in certain tasks  Club386

Linux 6.15 Features Deliver A Lot For Intel & AMD, Many Other Changes  Phoronix

The Linux 6.15 merge window ended on Sunday with the release of Linux 6.15-rc1. There is a lot of exciting features and updates that were merged during the two-week merge window. Here is a look at all of the most prominent changes to be found with Linux 6.15.

With the recent release of Blender 4.4 it brought many improvements to its Vulkan back-end but is still being treated as experimental. But they hope to make their Vulkan renderer production-ready this year and in order to do that they need more help from the community in testing it...

Turning Old Cellphones Into SBCs  Hackaday

OpenSSL 3.5 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used library for SSL and TLS protocol handling...

Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1...

Adding Linux Support For The Apple M4 ‘Going To Be Painful’  WebProNews

After the CUPS lead developer left Apple and OpenPrinting taking up CUPS developer after Apple ceased development, CUPS 2.4 eventually materialized. CUPS 2.4 released in 2021 as the culmination of that work to restore the open-source development around this print server while today brings CUPS 2.4.12 for ending out the series and looking toward a future with CUPS 2.5...

One of the patch series that unfortunately weren't finished up in time for the recent Linux v6.15 kernel merge window were the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers. These are the drivers for supporting some of the Lenovo gaming-oriented hardware under Linux and all the more interesting with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld having an official Steam OS option...

Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With Major Driver Update & Perfomance Boost  CybersecurityNews

Canonical announced today they have released Ubuntu developer images for the Orange Pi RV2, a new RISC-V single board computer that is low-cost with the SBC featuring 8GB of RAM costing just $64 USD...

Ubuntu Adds Support For A New Low-Cost RISC-V Board: The OrangePi RV2 8GB For ~$64  Phoronix

It turns out the Hierarchical Z "HiZ" implementation with AMD RDNA4 GPUs with the GFX12 graphics engine for early rejection of fragments before hitting the rendering pipeline is slightly buggy. Driver workarounds are needed for the HiZ/HiS support with RDNA4 GPUs to avoid potential hangs...

Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware...